9.2.2. Примерный перечень вопросов к экзамену на 2 курсе:
Do you enjoy your studies/ work? (What makes you say that/ Why?)/ What is the most interesting aspect/ part of your studies/ work? Is there anything you dislike about your work/ studies?
Are you studying anything at the moment? What are/ were the best things about your job/ studies? What do you do for a living? Who was your favourite teacher at school? (Why?) Are you working at the moment? (Have you had a job before?) Is there anything you want to study in the future? What is your typical day like at work/ at school/ in college?
What are your hobbies? / Do you have any hobbies? / Have you got any interests or hobbies?
Are there any new leisure activities you would like to take up? Do you prefer to go out or stay at home in the evenings? (Why?) How do you usually spend your weekends/ days off? What do you usually do in the evening? Do you prefer going out or staying at home? Why? What did you do last weekend? How much free time do you have? Do you enjoy playing sports? (What sports do you like?)What type of music do you enjoy most? What type of films do you like? When was the last time you went out? What did you do? What do you do when you meet your friends? Do you prefer going out with a large or small group of friends? What are your leisure time activities?Can you tell me about your family?Did you get on well with your parents/ brothers or sisters when you were a child? Do you get on well with your family? How/ Why?Which of your parents do you most resemble/ take after?What do your parents do? Do you have many friends? (How about close friends?D o you speak any other languages? / How many languages do you speak? Why are you taking the IELTS exam? Do you have any plans for after you take the IELTS exam? What will you do if you pass the IELTS exam? How long have you been studying English? Why is it important for you to learn English? How do you usually celebrate your birthday? How did you celebrate your last birthday? How do you think you will celebrate your next birthday? What is the most important day of the year for you? (Why?) What is the next big celebration in your family? (What are you going to do?) What is the most important festival in your hometown/ country? Where do you live now? How long have you been living there? What do you like about your home? Is there anything you would like to change/ improve about your home? What would your dream house be like? What is your local area like? What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?
What are your plans for your next holiday? / Do you have any plans for your next holiday? What are you going to do at the weekend/ on your next days off? What do you think you will be doing in ten years’time?What countries would you like to visit (in the future)? Would you like you live abroad? Why/ Why not? What things would you recommend a foreign tourist to do in your country? Have you ever had any problems while you were travelling? When do you think you will next travel abroad? (Where would you like to go?) Have you been to any English speaking countries? (What do you think about it/ them?) Have you travelled much? Can you cook?. Who does the cooking in your family/ house? What is the most famous dish from your country? Can you describe it? What is your favourite dish? What kind of food do you like? What is your main meal of the day? Do you prefer eating at home or in a restaurant? On what occasions do you eat special meals?
9.2.3. Примерный перечень вопросов к экзамену на 3 курсе
What kind of strategic company alliances do you know? Why do companies create strategic alliances? What should CEOs be aware of when venturing into alliances? Do alliances always result in increased shareholder value? What are the reasons why alliances may end in failures? What could be done by both companies to ensure a smooth transition from one corporate culture to another? What is a project? What involves managing a project successfully? What do we call people in charge of a project? What do project managers need on order to complete the work on time and on budget? What are the 4 phases of a project life cycle? Which tasks does the initiation/planning … phase include? Which of the project phases do you consider to be the most important? What was the biggest novelty implemented by British Airports Authority while constructing Heathrow airport’s fifth terminal? What biggest projects of the century do you know? Is it typical of Russian business culture to respect deadlines? What is team work? How are professionalism and efficiency often measured? Why do successful teams accomplish their objectives? In what case is a meeting a success? What is the role if the chair-person/ facilitator? What possible reasons for holding meetings can you name? Which tasks could be easily completed by e-mail, memo or telephone? Which tasks are best achieved in a meeting? What types of alternative meetings do you know? In what situations and for which purposes can they be best used? Which h type of meting would you prefer? Why? In what case are meeting a waste of time? Why do corridor and coffee machine meetings often turn out to be more efficient? What happens if meetings haven’t been properly organized? Are team building/molding activities a necessity? Can teams be built of their own accord? How do you feel about such team building activities as bungee jumping, paintballing, etc? What other activities can help to mould a team? What can management do if team morale is low? What team roles do you know? What are the functions of a team leader/facilitator/recorder/time keeper? Which of the team roles is responsible for: reviewing the agenda; providing resources; providing updates; writing down key points; establishing ground rules? In which of the roles do you see yourself? Your group mates? Why? Team building involves individual members being positive and putting the team’s interests ahead of their own? What other qualities should team members possess? Would you describe Russian business culture as individualistic or collectivist? What’s characteristic of individualistic/collectivist cultures? How might a difference in attitude cause conflict in multicultural teams? Is information a key resource for modern businesses? Why? Does information management have a direct impact on company efficiency? In what form does information flow between different parts of a business’ information system? What allows this information to be gathered, processed, exchanged and stored? What does it mean: to be able to analyse developments in your business in real time? What opportunities do managers get from the fact that they can analyse developments in their business in real time? What are information systems connected to? What common problems do all info systems face nowadays? Why has the amount of info increased so sharply/dramatically in recent years? Do you think it will continue to increase like this? What problems is it fraught with? How has it changed the way that people live? How do communicate information? What is an intranet? What are its advantages? How difficult is to manage an intranet? What are the main security issues for the intranet? Who supplies content for the intranet? Do you think intranets are a good idea, or do they just contribute excessive amounts of information? What is a real-time enterprise? What are the main benefits of a real-time enterprise? How do you deal with excessive amounts of information? Do you think that having a lot of info makes it easier for managers to do their jobs? How will the business of the future be affected by the development of IT? What are some of the risks if business becomes more and more computerized? What is the difference between “business intelligence” and “industrial espionage”? What are the sources of business intelligence? What forms can industrial espionage take? How can competitors obtain info from employees? How can companies protect their info systems? What is the best way to make staff more aware of security risks? What would you do if you suspected that your colleague has given away confidential information? Do we usually ask direct questions or questions that are phrased in an indirect manner and allude to things rather than explicitly state them? In other words: do we belong to direct/indirect culture? What sort of misunderstanding can arise between people from direct/indirect cultures? What is a saturated market? Is consumer electronics market a saturated one? In what ways are consumer electronics products are changing our lives? What innovations have changed for ever the way we work and view the world? What is nanotechnology? (a science that combines computer technology and chemistry to build things from atoms) What opportunities does it offer? In what field has our lifestyle been changed most dramatically? Do you believe that a new range of mobile phones for dogs has recently been launched in the US? How can the potential market for mobile phones in Japan be at least 5 times greater than the population? Why is it good to make use of people’s phones when they are asleep? What reasons can you think of for installing phones on dogs, in cars, laptop computers, household appliances and industrial machinery? Where can telecommunications companies find new untapped markets in order to boost their falling revenues? Why is it said that the mobile industry is “a victim of its own success”? How are some countries allowing poor people to use mobile phones? What areas of life do computers affect most? What opportunities does the internet open and what benefits are doubtful? What infrastructure problems may become a barrier to the interconnected “paradise”? What negative economic impact can interconnectedness bring? Is it likely to lead to monopolization? Why? How can exponential extention of internet technologies impact the balance of global economic forces? Which model may become dominant? What type of data for managers impose the biggest challenge? Do they have tools to deal with such data? What determines (lays down) the conditions under which companies can operate in their home markets and abroad? Whose services can companies use to take legal action (litigate) in order to obtain compensation for harm they have suffered? Who represents both sides in a law suit? What do we call the person who brings the lawsuit against the defendant? In what case can businesses be sued? Is it possible to settle lawsuits out of court? How? Do you know any examples where people have sued companies and were awarded unreasonably high compensations? What is your attitude to them? What forms can litigation against companies take? Can litigation affect a Co’s stock price? How? What are the arguments for and against litigation? Why is litigation costing companies more money than before? What are the most common categories of litigation? In some countries more and more people are prepared to litigate either against businesses or against professional people. Will this benefit society in the long term? Is bargaining an accepted part of the interaction when making a purchase in Russia? What are the situations and settings where people are more likely to b Who are entrepreneurs? How do they make their living? Where does money for a new business come from? Who are business angels? How can profits and dividends for shareholders be increased? What are the responsibilities of professional fund managers? What are ethical investments? What successful investors are familiar to you? What is behavioural finance? Why don’t companies sometimes abandon projects on which they are losing money? Why is it irrational to invest only in your own country? Why are people more concerned about losses than gains? How can wrong decisions affect stock market investors’ future decisions? It you inherited 100000$, how would you invest it? What are the pros and cons of investments such as art, antiques, rare books, wine? Which of them present highest/lowest risk? What does setting priorities mean? If you wanted to set up a new ethical investment fund, what tasks would you come up with first? In what terms do you measure success in life/business? What are fossil fuels? What do energy companies do? What products are derived from petroleum? What essential components for industry are derived from oil? What can drive up oil prices? What makes companies and governments develop alternative or renewable energies? What is creating pollution and causing global warming? What can people do to reduce the amount of energy that they use? Why is it of utmost importance to have objective estimates of petroleum reserves? Which groups have a vested interest in exaggerating oil reserves? Why? How would a shrinking oil supply affect energy companies/ consumers/ economies of developed/ developing countries? What would be the most/least serious consequences of a diminishing supply of petroleum? How do you think people will be affected by developments in the energy industry over the next 10 to 20 years? What are the possible scenarios for the future of the energy sector? What types of energy do you know? What is renewable energy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energies? What do most renewable energies rely on? (the sun) What renewable energies don’t depend on the sun? What are the main users of energy? Can nuclear energy be a solution to the problem of fossil fuels depletion? Would you mind living next to a nuclear power station?
9.2.4. Примеры вопросов к экзамену на 4 курсе:
What is a project proposal? What is the project proposal organisation? Comment on the language of an academic proposal. What is it advisable to avoid when writing a proposal? What linguistic units are researchers encouraged to use in an academic text? What are the stages of writing a project proposal? What are the requirements for the word-count? What structural elements are included in the abstract? What structural elements are included in the introduction? What structural elements constitute the main body of the project proposal? What does the conclusion contain? How should plagiarism be avoided? What are the stages of an oral presentation?
9.3. Примеры заданий промежуточного /итогового контроля
Ниже приводится образец устного задания для выполнения на экзамене у студентов 1 курса:
Examination card № 1
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Speak on the topic “Different personality types”
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Make up the dialogue on the topic “Trends”
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3. Answer the examiner’s questions on the topics studied
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Пример экзаменационного билета на 3 курсе:
Examination card № 1
1. Answer the examiners’ questions on the topic “Energy”.
2. Make a mini-presentation on one of the two topics suggested. You have one minute to prepare your ideas.
What is important for a company when …?
Developing in a traditional way
Exploiting the natural resources
Investing in construction projects
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What is important for a company when …?
Green imperialism prevails
Preserving original inhabitants and nature
Finding new energy sources
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3. Make up a dialogue on the topic «The Internet”.
You are given responsibility to hire several hundreds of workers for the overseas subsidiary of a public catering company.
Discuss the situation together and decide:
What qualifications the applicants should have
What type of job interview to use
4. Read the article on the topic “Teamwork”, summarize it and focus on the problems raised there.
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10. Порядок формирования оценок по дисциплине
В ходе учебного процесса преподаватель осуществляет текущий, промежуточный и итоговый контроль работы студентов.
Текущий контроль предполагает регулярную и систематическую проверку уровня развития коммуникативных иноязычных компетенций студентов в аудировании, говорении, чтении, и письменной речи. Текущий контроль может осуществляться как в письменной форме (домашние задания, эссе, контрольные и самостоятельные работы), так и в устной форме (монологические высказывания, диалоги, беседа с преподавателем). Работа студента оценивается либо на занятии (устная речь), либо во внеучебное время (письменные работы). Оценки за работу преподаватель выставляет в свою рабочую ведомость.
Результирующая оценка за текущую работу (текущий контроль), определяется по 10-ти бальной шкале перед промежуточным контролем (зачет или экзамен) и рассчитывается как среднее арифметическое всех заданий текущего контроля. Во всех случаях округления оценка округляется вниз, если дробная часть меньше 0,5 и вверх, если дробная часть больше 0,5.
Промежуточный контроль осуществляется после окончания модуля или учебного года в форме экзамена или зачета. Контроль осуществляется в письменной (аудирование, чтение, письмо) и/ или устной форме (говорение). Оценка за промежуточный контроль включает также и оценку за текущий контроль и рассчитывается по формуле:
О промежуточная = 0,7 накопленная +0,3 экзамен/зачет
Результирующая итоговая оценка складывается из накопленной оценки за 4 курс и экзаменационной оценки за 4 курс и рассчитывается по формуле
Орезультирующая итоговая = 0,3экзаменационная 4 + 0,7 накопленная 4
Итоговый контроль осуществляется в форме государственного экзамена. |
